Question 1
If gastric residual volume collected before a bolus feeding is greater than 200 mL on two consecutive checks, the nurse should:
Correct Answer:
Discontinue the administration of the bolus feeding
Explanation:
High gastric residual volume before a bolus feed indicates the stomach isn’t emptying properly and the patient isn’t tolerating the feeding. When two consecutive checks show more than 200 mL, continuing the bolus feed increases the risk of regurgitation and aspiration with the next delivery. The safest course is to discontinue the bolus feeding and reassess the patient, looking for causes of delayed gastric emptying (such as medications, dehydration, ileus, or electrolyte disturbances) and confirming tube placement if needed. After stopping, the care plan can be adjusted—often switching to a slower or continuous feeding approach or resuming bolus feeds only after stabilization and physician guidance. Increasing the bolus volume or continuing with a smaller bolus would not address the intolerance and could worsen the situation. Checking placement and consulting are prudent steps, but the immediate, safest action when two consecutive high residuals occur is to stop the bolus feeding.
Question 2
Which scenario most likely indicates prerenal AKI?
Correct Answer:
Severe dehydration causing reduced renal perfusion
Explanation:
Prerenal AKI happens when the kidneys themselves are fine, but they aren’t getting enough blood flow. Severe dehydration drops the circulating volume and renal perfusion, so the glomeruli don’t filter effectively and the GFR falls. This scenario fits a perfusion problem rather than direct kidney injury, which is why it’s the best match for prerenal AKI. In this situation the body often preserves kidney function by boosting reabsorption of sodium and water, leading to a low urine sodium concentration and a high BUN-to-creatinine ratio, and the kidney function can improve quickly once fluids are restored. The other scenarios involve intrinsic kidney injury or obstruction. Nephrotoxic drugs injure tubular cells inside the kidney, acute glomerulonephritis damages the glomeruli, and a urinary tract obstruction causes a post-renal AKI through back-pressure effects. These are not primarily about reduced perfusion, so they don’t represent prerenal AKI.
Question 3
What is the primary goal of oxygen therapy?
Correct Answer:
Improve tissue oxygenation by increasing arterial oxygen content
Explanation:
The main idea is to boost oxygen delivery to tissues by raising the amount of oxygen carried in arterial blood. Supplemental oxygen increases the partial pressure of oxygen in the lungs, which raises arterial oxygen content by increasing both the oxygen dissolved in plasma and the saturation of hemoglobin. With more oxygen carried per liter of blood, tissues receive more oxygen for metabolism, helping prevent hypoxic injury. Oxygen delivery depends on arterial oxygen content and cardiac output, so improving CaO2 directly supports tissue oxygenation. Other options don’t fit because decreasing oxygen consumption targets demand rather than supply, increasing hematocrit changes red cell mass rather than oxygen saturation through inhaled oxygen, and normalizing blood pressure is a cardiovascular goal separate from the primary aim of enhancing oxygen delivery.
Question 4
To obtain the most complete assessment data for a client with chronic pain, which information should the nurse obtain?
Correct Answer:
What activities during a routine day are impacted by your pain
Explanation:
Understanding how pain limits daily functioning is essential in chronic pain assessment. The best choice asks what activities during a typical day are affected by the pain, because it directly reveals how pain interferes with everyday tasks, responsibilities, work, sleep, and social participation. This functional insight drives care planning—setting realistic goals, choosing pacing strategies, recommending therapies or assistive devices, and targeting interventions to improve quality of life. Medications, duration of pain, and a numeric pain rating are important data points, but they don’t by themselves show how pain translates into real-world limitations. Two people with the same pain rating can have very different impacts on daily activities. So while those are pieces of the overall assessment, the question points to the most comprehensive information by focusing on daily activity impact.
Question 5
When preparing to irrigate a client's indwelling urinary catheter using an open technique, which step is performed first?
Correct Answer:
Draw up the irrigating solution into the syringe
Explanation:
Starting with drawing up the irrigating solution into the syringe sets up the irrigation process by making the irrigant ready to go. Having the solution prepared first helps you move smoothly into the remaining steps without delaying the procedure or leaving the syringe exposed longer than needed. Once the solution is ready, you proceed with sterile preparation (sterile gloves and sterile field) and then connect the syringe to the catheter to deliver the irrigation. This sequence helps maintain asepsis and ensures the irrigation can be performed efficiently.
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